ICSID Tribunal Won’t Suspend Criminal Investigation In Serbian Dairy Farm Dispute

Mealey's (March 17, 2021, 12:54 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — An International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) tribunal on March 12 declined a group of Canadian and Cypriot investors’ request to order the Republic of Serbia to halt a criminal investigation into one of their witnesses in an arbitration over the alleged expropriation of their investment in a Serbian dairy farm, writing that the requested measures are neither “necessary nor urgent” and denying most of their post-briefing evidentiary requests....